Advertising device



R. A. BINGAMAN.'

ADVERTISING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED JuNe sflszg- 1,422,529. I Patented uly 11,1922.

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R. A. BINGAMAN.

ADVERTISING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5, I920.

Patented July 1], 1922:,

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ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Application filed June 5, 1920.

T 0 calla-1:71am it may concern:

'Be it known that I. MAN, a citizenot the United States. residing; at Batavia, in the county of Clermont and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a spec fication.

This invention relates to advertising devices and has for its primary object to provide means for enhancing the value as an advertising medium of posters, sale signs, fair signs, show signs. or in fact any signs or fixed display advertisements.

The value of the ordiiuiry'poster, bill, or other fixed display advertisement as an advertising medium is somewhat limited for observer will usually not remember the details recited thereby and will either completely forget the subject advertised, or the stated time or date of sale, or will confuse the same with some other advertisement which he has seen. Of course, the primary purpose of posters. bills, and other large display advertisements of similar character is to attract attention and they undoubtedly serve thispurpose. but unless the observer remembers the details recited. thereby or acts -immediately on the suggestion conveyed, he is only momentarily interested and the facts and suggestions soon pass from his mind. It is I object of the present invention to provide means which may be applied to any such sign adapted to hold, contain, or supportbooklets, pamphlets, circulars, cards. samples, or in fact any type of vertisina matter designed to carry forward the ideas presented by the. advertisement proper so that if an observer is interested he may take from the device one of the hooks, pamphlets, cards, samples or the like which he may more conveniently examine at his leisure-and tlmsbecome impressed with the ideas which the'advertising matter intended to convey. In the accompanying drawingsz. Figure 1 is a perspective view of one term of the device applied to a sale bill or poster:

Fig. 2 is a vertical front to rear sectional view through the device applied; I

detail front elevation of the device;

Fig.- 4 is a horizontal sectional view on the line ls-lot Fig. 3.

Specification of Letters Patent.

RAYMoNn A. BTNGA- and upon which may be readily and yetsecurely the container may be formed from l?atented July H, 1922.

Serial No. 386,763.

In the drawings the numeral 1 indicates anadvertisin medium which may be of any of the ordinary kinds now in general 'use such for example as a bill, poster, sign, etc., may be printed, painted, or in tact depicted in any of the customary ways, any dcsi red advertisingmatter 2 ha"- ing reference to the subject to be advcr-.

tised and which may, of course, be an article of merchandise, goods to be auctioned or otherwise sold, real estate, machinery, and in tact anything which may form the subject matter of an advertisement.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the'drawings, the device comprises a container for the books, pamphlets, hand bills, samples, or the like to be distributed, and means whereby this container attached to the adyertising medium I. The container is indicated in general by the numeral 3 and the same may be made of cardboard, sheet metal, celluloid, or in fact any material or combination of materials found suitable for the pur ose. The container comprises atront wal t, a rear wall 5, end Walls 6, and a bottom 7 and is illustrated in the drawings as rectangular in form although it may be of any other desired shape or contour. 'The container is open at its top and the advertising mediums which it is designed to contain, and which are indicated. in the drawings by the numeral 8, may be readily removed from the container through the said top thereof. alt desired of sheet material which isinitially in flat form and from this blank the several walls of the container may be folded up and secured by corner fastenings 9 or in any other suitable manner.

The rear Wall 5 of the container is extended upwardly preferably a'considerable distance above the open upper side of the container and'considerably wider than the latter to provide an attaching member 10 upon which may be printed, painted, or otherwise impressed or marked as at 11 instructions to the observer of the sign or ad- -vert1sement 1 to take one of the advertising mediums 8 from the container. I

The attacl'iing' portion 10 is braced with relation to the body of the container preterably by means of a diagonal, arcuate bracing strip 12 having one end secured as at 13 to or through. the front wall 4 of the a blank against, for example,

container and its other end secured'as at 14' to or through the said attaching portion 10,

the intermediary portion being bent lip-- tongues 17 at its opposite ends which tongues may be inserted through the'adveritismg medium 1 and the said portion 10 of the device ot the invention and thenturned down as shown most clearly inFigs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. 7

From the foregoing description of theinvention it will be understood that the presence of the device in connection with any advertising medium such for example as the poster 1, will'greatly enhance the value ofthe mediumas the medium will serve in thefirst instance to attract the attention, and

the convenient location of the device ofthe invention will influence the observer to take from the container one of the advertising mediums 8 which he Will in all probability carry with him and thus have further brought to his attention the subject matter of the advertisement 1.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: v

1. A, permanently open box for display material, a back portion integral with the box but of greater height and widt h than the box, a brace forsaid back portionsecurely fastened thereto and to the forward edge of the box, a .poster detachably secured to the upper edge of said back portion and being of the same width as thelatter'.

2. A permanently open box for display .ing material, a back portion integral with the box but of greater height and width than the box,

a brace for said back portion' securel .faste'ned thereto and to the forward.

edge 0 the box, aposter detachably secured to the upper edge of said'back portion and being of the same width as the latter, said back ortion being provided with, directions for disposing of the contents of the box.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

RAYMOND A. BI'NGAMAN. [1 5.] 

